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Show IMUANS TO RK PAID Receive Million and a Half for Col-ville Col-ville Lands. SPOKANE. Wash . Nov Ml A special from t: ,. iiovernment Indian agency at Old Fort Spokane says: The proposed agreement ol the Government with the Ind'ans'for opening the south half of the Coivilie reservation was read this afternoon after-noon nt the conference between Government Govern-ment o-fHials and the Indians Th- cEunCil was held In the auditorium of the Administration building. About Ji" Indians Mtt on the floor against the walls, making a hollow square In tho center of the room was lndlun Inspector Laughifil Of the Interior department and Cnpt John Webster. U 9. A.. In. "an ngeiy It proposes that the Government shaV. pay the Indians on the ColviUe tes- rvatlon" H.jOO.OOij for lands previously ceded on the north half of the reaorva-fon reaorva-fon Indians not already allotted lands arc to bs given eighty acres for each man. woman and child, the romalnder of tho lands except mineral, ty b- sold by the Government and the proceeds h.-id in truest lor the Indians. The sum of 1100.000 Is to lie impropriated fmrn the jl.'s -i.o and distributed pro i na aiiioiig the Indluiis is soon as the agreement is approved. |